Lexington Books
Pages: 304
Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-66695-360-2 • Hardback • November 2024 • $130.00 • (£100.00)
978-1-66695-361-9 • eBook • November 2024 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Stephen Goundrey-Smith is associate tutor in Christian ethics and doctrine at Cuddesdon Gloucester and Hereford, and a course facilitator with the Gateway Theology School.
Introduction: The Good Life
Chapter 1: Theological Foundations: Creation, Vocation and Co-Creation
Chapter 2: Health Technology: Modern and Post-Modern
Chapter 3: Public Bodies: The State and the Governance of Human Function
Chapter 4: Consensus or Control: Biomedical Technology and Public Policy
Chapter 5: Biomedical Technology, Ethics and Public Policy: Towards an Essential Triad
Chapter 6: Fulfilling Life: A Tale of Two Cities
The Reverend Stephen Goundrey-Smith is a delightful anomaly: a pharmacist with a strong healthcare background, an applied theologian, and an ordained minister in the Church of England. This text thoughtfully reflects on new and future biomedical technologies from the perspective of theological ethics and healthcare policy.
Many treatises on healthcare ethics focus on the moral propriety of specific treatments for individual patients. Dr. Goundrey-Smith examines the larger question of how new healthcare technologies might support human flourishing in our world. He asks: “How can we all live well technologically in a complex, pluralistic society?” His surprising answers from Christian theology will give encouragement and hope to people of all faiths.
— Dennis Sullivan, Cedarville University